RFI is organizing the eleventh edition of the Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon Scholarship, in tribute to the two reporters murdered in northern Mali on November 2, 2013.
Ten candidate journalists and ten candidate technicians will be selected on the basis of their application and then invited to attend workshops from October 14 to 29, 2024, provided by RFI’s internal training department, at the SRTB premises in Cotonou.
At the end of these days, the jury will meet to designate the winners, both journalists and technicians, of the Scholarship who will benefit from four weeks of fully-funded training in Paris during the first quarter of 2025.
WORTH
This Scholarship trains ten young radio journalists and ten young reporting technicians each year
ELIGIBILITY
- Open to candidates from all French-speaking African countries
- All young journalists and reporting technicians under the age of 35 who have already worked in the radio field for at least two years, and who reside in one of the following French-speaking countries; Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Gabon, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Mauritius, Mauritania, Niger, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, Seychelles, Chad, Togo, Tunisia and Rwanda.
DEADLINE: August 25, 2024
To apply and for more information click here